Ok, worst post title ever. The book wasn’t even about grapes…anyway…we went grape picking last weekend! A vineyard about 30 minutes south of us had juice and upick grapes for sale so we bought some Aurora, Niagara and Moores Diamond juice along with Niagara grapes. I had no idea there were so many varieties or that wine is named after the type of grape it’s mostly made from. So a Riesling wine is made of mostly Riesling grapes. That one is actually way out of our budget at $17.95/gallon. The juice we got runs about $4-6 a gallon. Upick grapes were super cheap though, our Niagara grapes were .35/lb.
Ben had a ton of fun eating and picking. We strolled around the vineyard for a bit too and just enjoyed the little family outing. Next week we’ll return and pick up some Concord grape juice and Concord grapes.
This cracks me up and should have been with Cassidy’s 2 month update.
If you leave her alone for a little bit and then come back and start talking to her, she lights right up. Crazy eyes, big gummy smile and a squeak <3
I am so backed up on blog posts, but I wanted to get Cassidy’s 2 month photos up before she isn’t 2 months anymore!
She’s been such a good baby so far, I’m really enjoying her. She’s happy and alert most of the day, starting to coo and talk too. She does tend to get a little crabby around supper time, but nothing too bad. She has no interest in the pacifier and just spits it out, so the easiest way to soothe her is to walk walk walk.
She hasn’t really developed any napping patterns during the day yet, but sleeps amazingly at night. We put her down at 7:30 when Ben goes to bed and I usually only have to feed her once around 1am before she wakes up again at 7:00am. So incredibly lucky! She has actually gone a full 12 hours some nights too, no joke. We’ve been swaddling and using white noise, but I never thought I’d get lucky with another great sleeper.
She’s eating great, nursing every 2-3 hours. She’s taking the bottle fairly well now too (I finally found one she’s happy with). She weighs 10lbs 8.5oz and is 50th percentile for height. 75th for head circumference, haha Ben had a big head at all his check ups too. She rolled over from tummy to back at 6 weeks.
Lately I’ve been feeling like I’m treading water and getting nowhere. I think it’s just the newborn phase in general, added to taking care of an almost three year old, working part time and trying to maintain the house. I was having a pity party the other day and feeling like I was going to be wiping noses and butts f.o.r.e.v.e.r (exaggerate much?)
Then this happened.
I wish the pictures were a little better but they still make me smile. He ‘read’ her a story and then showed her Bear and Moose (who also wanted to give her kisses).
<3
We headed to my mom and Paul’s cottage this weekend.
Ben was SO helpful with setting up the tent.
There was a lot of Cassidy loving.
She smiles now :)
My mom saved our old Little People and Ben was so excited to play with “the peoples.”
Andy discovered some blackberry bushes growing under the deck.
The coolest piece of driftwood had washed up to the cottage.
He still needs a name though.
We also had the maiden flight of Andy’s quadcopter.
Always tinkering with something!
Andy also got a jet ski lesson from Paul.
That night we enjoyed s’mores around the fire. If you were Andy, you enjoyed leftover chicken wings.
The boys had the great idea to hang a sparkler from the chinese lanterns they were sending off.
They did look pretty cool, and nothing caught on fire :)
It was a beautiful evening.
My mom gave me a bunch of my old baby clothes and this little bonnet was with them. Cassidy won’t fit in it for much longer, but it is super cute!
